My calendar notes that the Australian Open Space on Open Space is happening this weekend and I just want to extend very good wishes for a wonder-filled, creative, innovative, rejuvenating, revitalizing, playful time to friends in Australia who are at this event.
I wish to share with you some notes that are dear to me about Open Space using dance as metaphor: "The boundaries keep us clear so that we are free to dance in the middle. May the space held for you be large to allow lots of room for the dance" "People who watch are fools, people who dance are fools; so if I'm going to be a fool anyway, I choose to dance"----told by a woman at the Open Space gathering in Seattle this past weekend on the Emergent Role of Women Leaders "The living and breathing in Open Space. The pain and the joy. The learning. Coming together, pulling apart, coming together, pulling apart, coming together, pulling apart,....the dance. And finally to come together in the purest of moments. We are terrified of this moment because it is the complete test of our reality---past, present, and future in the NOW. And at the now of coming together, we begin to look at the separateness of each other and to agree to dance together to find this moment again and again. The gift of Open Space. The gift of the dance." Blessings to you, Birgitt Birgitt Bolton Dalar Associates/Change Team Canada 55 Ravina Cres., Ancaster, Ontario, Canada L9G 2E8 phone: 905-648-5775 fax: 905-648-2262
